In case there really is a question about whether we should be working
towards greater equity, please see the Wikimedia Foundation's vision
statement [1],
> Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in
the sum of all knowledge. That's our commitment
and in more detail [2],
> ... our goal is to impact the largest-possible number of readers and
contributors, and to eliminate barriers that could preclude people from
accessing or contributing to our projects ...
Since sj's point is in the context of Wikimedia, "goals of increasing
equity across the world, and supporting underrepresented communities"
should be understood as "goals of increasing equity [to read and
contribute to Wikimedia projects] across the world, and supporting
underrepresented [Wikimedia] communities". Please correct me if I've
misunderstood these affiliate review suggestions.
Regards,
[[mw:User:Adamw]]
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Vision
[2]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles#Serving_every_human_being
On 5/20/21 7:34 AM, Alexander N Krassotkin wrote:
Dear Samuel,
Just a note...
"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower and engage
people around the world to collect and develop educational content
under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it
effectively and globally".
https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/mission/
But not "increasing equity across the world".
You can create separate funds for this and other good purposes.
sasha.
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:05 PM Julia Brungs <[email protected]> wrote:
Dear SJ,
Thank you very much for your questions here and on meta. We are working on
answering them and will post the answers on meta (don't worry I will reply to
this thread again when the answers are live so people can go and find them).
Best wishes,
Julia
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 7:32 PM Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
:) Dimi, do you know of reports on subsets of this, for groups and projects
in Europe? I discovered to my delight a beautiful summary of WMF grants made
up to 2020 -- thanks Guillaume! -- which partly answers the first question. But
this does not include donations + external grant funding that directly supports
affiliates.
One other point -- It was noted that 3a and 3d seem similar. I updated these
Qs on meta to be clearer. I meant:
3a: What groups do we envision making individual funding recommendations?
[timing, who decides, what constraints]
3d: How do we envision reviewing how things are going? [peer feedback on
budgets and plans, reflection on the overall balance of funding across the
movement.]
These inform one another, but are distinct. And the first is more than just
updating current processes: major gaps to fill include funding for projects
under $500, and multi-year funding for infrastructure and projects -- among the
most common requests.
SJ
On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 6:52 AM Dimitar Parvanov Dimitrov
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Samuel,
Thanks for structuring these questions regarding funding and fundraising. I
just wanted to pitch in a +1.
It would be very useful to have answers to some of these for our public facing
work. Such questions pop up naturally in conversations and the more granular we
can be in our answers the better the reaction we get.
Cheers,
Dimi
На пн, 17.05.2021 г. в 21:13 ч. Samuel Klein <[email protected]> написа:
Dear list,
Risker posed an excellent question in the AffCom thread about review and
development of movement funding, which could use its own dedicated thread.
Riffing on the theme, here are a dozen questions for anyone who knows part of
the answer -- particularly those who helped develop the 2019 recommendations on
resource allocation , the 2020 approach to hubs and participatory resource
allocation, and the grants strategy relaunch.
We can move this discussion to meta if the thread becomes unwieldy. (:
1. Current state of movement funding
1a. Roughly what % of global fundraising is currently allocated to
affiliates, or other entities + projects not run by the WMF? (my poor guess)
1b. Roughly how much regional fundraising goes directly to major affiliates?
1c. Which affiliates with annual plan grants have been growing over time, and
how is the expansion of existing budgets approved?
1d. Which affiliates have gotten their first APG in the past five years, and
how has that developed over time?
2. Current review process
2a. How is funding by WMF of movement affiliates (general operations, and
large specific projects) currently determined? Does the Board engage with this?
2b. Is the funding of affiliate work linked to goals of increasing equity
across the world, and supporting underrepresented communities? If so, how / how
is this visualized?
2c. What other mechanisms for focusing and allocating resources are good
examples to replicate?
2d. What other bilateral projects (such as joint projects, and grant or
microgrant programs), run by large affiliates and hubs other than the WMF,
currently exist? Which seem like examples to replicate?
3. Desired futures!
3a. What movement bodies are expected to play any role in recommendations
about funding (extending, withdrawing, denying funding) to new and existing
affiliates, now that the FDC is inactive?
3b. Is there a possibility of the FDC returning? How do past FDC members have
about this? What was found to be good and bad about the FDC process?
3c. What elements of this is the global council expected to take up in its
first year? What elements are hubs expected to take up, now and in the future?
3d. What roles do we envision each of {WMF, hubs, affiliates, community
members} to play in reviewing movement budgets/plans and the volume and focus
of future funding [re]allocation?
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